I do probably deserve what I got and I did say I was stupid throughout my post. I guess I should have said I was willfully ignorant as I went against my gut intuition.

You only learn when someone teaches about something or you encounter a situation where you have to teach yourself. I never learned about such tactics used by scammers before it happened to me. Therefore I learned through experience. I'm hoping that my story can help those learn via my experience without having to have similar experiences.

You may not have any empathy towards me or my situation but I can say that I have seen a lot of it in the community and I'm thankful that such a community exists.

I don't know how LN/Bitcoin will become more mainstream if we can't help those that don't know better. If I can get scammed then how are we going to keep young people, the elderly, and those not inclined to technology safe when there is a more widespread adoption. But maybe you don't care about that either.